Masculinity And Femininity As An Agent Of Socialization

Member of society have a mindset that agent of socialization is one of the origin that influenced the reinforcement of gender inequality since childhood. What is socialization? In lexical definition, socialization, as a lifelong interactive process, contains individual’s culture learning that is in compliance with social norms and roles to integrate into community (Socialization, n.d.). Childhood is the most influential period of socialization which agents of socialization impact the way children behave that related with social norms. Gender can be effected social behavior of each individual. It was assigned to them in accordance to their biological sex start at birth. Thus, gender socialization is the learning process to instruct individuals

Femininity is perceived as social construct, which made up of both socially defined and biologically nature. So, it means that femininity is distinct from biological female sex as both males and females can exhibit feminine traits (Borgatta& Montgomery, 2000). Like masculine feminine characteristics considered as androgynous. Traditionally, feminine is such as empathy and sensitivity. There are behaviors and personalities that associated with femininity such as dependent, emotional, passive, sensitive, quiet and sexually submissive. However, different cultures reveal varying conceptions of masculinity and femininity. In Western world, the ideal of feminine appearance has included long hair, light skin, a narrow waist. This ideal is also accepted in Eastern world too. As social changes, the ways of clothes change too. Now we can see the women are wear blue jeans, using pink colors and jackets once these wore by men. Feminine persons are expected to have more manners in the way they behave, acting slowly, emotionally and take care of the way they talk to other people. For example when feminine person talk to others, they talk slowly and the content of conversation must not have dirty jokes or unsuitable words. When girls use opposite styles of wearing clothes, the people will give some negative perception to them. In Islamic world, there has been set rules of femininity

Schools are the first impersonal environment that makes student to experience something. The function of school is teaching knowledge and life skills. In generally, students do not just learn from the academic activities but also learn social skills through communicate with teachers, staff, and peers group (Crowell, 2015). After children enter the education system, old view for boys and girls will continue. Previously, investigatorsconcentrate on how teachers less focus for the girls in the classroom. Teachers tend to entertain girls to see themselves as less necessary than boys. Teachers would more focus on boys by mission them and asking them questions because boys are believe to be more rational (Spark Notes, 2015). Teachers also go to mingle girls to be quiet and boys need to be confident. Besides that, teachers allow and determine boys to engage in tolerant role whereas girls would be criticized. Girls are often using their voices soften than boys. In school, it usually isolateswith courses and sports on the assumption of gender. Secretarial courses and home chores are for girls and business while mechanics courses are for boys. High school counsellors are less acceptable toinspire girls to go on to college because they will get married and stay at home to take care of children. If a girl attends to college, counsellors bear to suggest her toward commonly feminine course. While these fault differential